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Hospitals Mining Data for Privately Insured Patients

by Admin 02.10.2012

Every once in a while I find that America’s acclaimed free market health care system (it’s a joke, folks, just a joke) has hit a new bottom. Today I found a piece in Health Business Blog that asked Are you commercially insured with cancer, heart disease or an orthopedic problem? If so, you are a [...]

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Senate Kicking Medicare Reimbursements 30 Days Down the Road

by Admin 11.19.2010

Perfect example of kicking the can down the road: the Senate prevented a cut in Medicare payments for doctors during the month of December, so they could kick it down the road to the new Congress without freaking out seniors. They still haven’t figured out they could fix it permanently, and are only going for [...]

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The Cost of Doing Nothing Goes Up Every Year

by Admin 02.04.2010

No matter which side of the political fence you are on, this is a startling situation, reported this morning in the Wall Street Journal– not a liberal rag: For the first time, government programs next year will account for more than half of all U.S. health-care spending, federal actuaries predict, as the weak economy sends more people [...]

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Why You Will Soon Get Access to Your Health Information

by Admin 01.11.2010

A few years ago, my partners in AHITA.org ( a non-profit organized to help providers implement EHRs)  and I implemented an electronic health record in a physician practice. Along the way, we evaluated every major product and discussed with the physicians in the practice what they needed and how to examine their workflows to automate.  [...]

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